There have been countless adaptations of classic works and while many of them seem destined to fall by the wayside, the new adaptation of The Color Purple directed by Blitz Bazawule is not one of them.
If you loiter on the interwebs as I tend to do, you’ll often come across articles that have you perplexed. This occurred to me yesterday, during the longest day EVER, when I read a piece over on the site Shadow and Act, titled The Gentrification of Black Film. In said article, author Tanya Steele delivers